Axis Communications announces the external release of version 5.3 of AXIS Optimizer for Milestone XProtect. This new version adds a metadata dashboard that turns data from Axis devices into actionable insights as well as a control panel to manage all metadata and forensic search capabilities. This enables three ways to use analytics stream metadata from Axis devices for free.
AXIS Optimizer Data Insights dashboard
AXIS Optimizer Data Insights dashboard turns data into insights in the form of graphs showing statistics, trends, and anomalies. Available in the Smart Client, it provides both operator and system administrator roles valuable insights derived from metadata. The metadata comes from data producers such as Axis OS, supported analytic applications and native Milestone XProtect events and alarms.
Operators gain a visualized, aggregated view from any existing camera views in their Smart Client, making it easy to analyze data, alarms or events. This improves site or store operations by, e.g.:
- Detecting the number of people or vehicles in a scene per hour, day, week, etc.
- Observing alarms and events over a specified time-period
- Getting insights from different data sources, e.g. AXIS OS (object classes, attributes, travel direction, etc.), supported analytic applications, and native VMS alarms
Administrators gain a system-wide overview of all their devices' on- and offline status as well as all active system alarms and events. This helps improve system health monitoring and situational awareness.
Metadata and search control panel
AXIS Optimizer version 5.3 includes a dedicated metadata and search control panel. Fully customizable, it provides control of events data, analytics data, analytics features, consolidated metadata as well as forensic search filters for each device in the system. Settings can be turned on or off for all metadata and forensic search capabilities. It’s also displays all video analytics features that each device currently supports, such as object type (humans, cars) and object attributes (color, speed and license plate number*). In addition, it's possible for admin roles to control which forensic search filters to make available for operators.
Speed and license plates added to forensic search
This latest version of AXIS Optimizer also makes it easy to search for speeding vehicle infractions detected in a camera’s field of view without the need for costly analytics servers. Users can filter on parameters in forensic object search and then export and share video evidence. For instance, it’s possible to search for maximum or minimum speed as well as vehicle license plate number during any given time interval duration*.
Prevent echo during intercom calls
Furthermore, this latest release offers improved intercom functionality with a push-to-talk feature that prevents echo during intercom calls. Operators simply hold in the Talk button during an incoming intercom call in the pop-up window in Milestone XProtect Smart Client.
Key features for this release include:
- Dashboard to visualize data insights
- Customizable metadata and search control panel
- Easily search for speeding vehicles
- Push-to-talk echo prevention intercom functionality
Available for free as a one-time installer, AXIS Optimizer is a cost-efficient suite of integrations that optimizes the performance of Axis devices in Milestone.
AXIS Optimizer for Milestone XProtect version 5.3 will be available on August 28, 2024, and can be downloaded at https://www.axis.com/products/axis-optimizer-for-milestone-xprotectr
* Speed and license plate metadata is only supported for AXIS Q1686–DLE Radar-Video Fusion Cameras. Turn on speed and license plate in Metadata and search control panel, then use AXIS Optimizer forensic object search in Centralized Search feature in XProtect Smart Client to filter by these parameters.
